{"id":6825,"date":"2016-11-16T16:25:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T15:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6825"},"modified":"2017-04-10T18:08:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T17:08:10","slug":"ayorinde-steve-2","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ayorinde-steve-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AYORINDE, Steve"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> B.A, M.A; journalist administrator;b: July 9,1970; cd: ChristApostolicGrammarSchool, Ibadan 1986;ObafemiAwolowoUniversity, 1990;UniversityofLeicester, U.K, 2006; cr:StaffReporter,The Guardian Newspapers, 1992;-99; Arts Editor,The Comet Newspapers, Lagos,1999- 03; Member,Editorial Board\/Art Editor,The PunchNewspaper, 2003-07; currently, Editor,The PunchNewspapers; AssistantSecretary General, Nigerian GuildofEditors; Member\/Junior, Federation of International FilmCritics; Musical Society ofNigeria; Juror,African Movie AcademyAwards;Major Events Covered, The First Franco-Nigerian ballet, Les larmes des dieux (When thegods gocrying) Nantes, France, 1996; Festival (Film) of Nantes, France, 1997;Cannes Film Festival, 1998;2001; 2003-07; Cannes, France; The Stage Performance of Things Fall Apart at the Kennedy Centre, Washington D.C, USA; International meeting on the promotion of local music heritagein the ageofglobalization,Amman, Jordan, 2000; Marketfor AfricanArts,Abidjan, 2001; Final Eviction ofthe Big BrotherRealityShow, Johannesburg, SouthAfrice2002;The Nigeria Independent Concert inLondon, 2004; World Bank IMF, Spring Meeting, Washington DC, 2008; fellow, \\ Pan&#8217;sBased FoundationJoumai ists-in-Europe, 1997-98;UnitedStates, U.S., StateDepartment&#8217;sGranteeofthe International VisitorsProgramme I.V.P. to understudythe MediaandCulturalInstitutionsinthe UnitedStatesofAmerice 1999; publ: Masterpieces: A Critics Timeless Report, Spectrum Books, 2008; h\/award: Music Journali.s ofthe Year,awards for Musical Excellence Preventing Electoral Violencein the 1999General Election,Commissioned by Civil Society;Coalition in Lagos, 1999; Soyinka&#8217;s The Lion and the Jewel, Lagos StateUniversity Convocation Play, 1999; ArtisticDir., Victims, A PlayonStoppingViolenceAgainstWomen, Commissionedby Centrefor Advocacy, Research and Action Against Violence, CARAAV, Ife, 2000; Participant ConferenceonYoruba HistoryandCulture, Department of History, The UniversityofTexas at Austin, USA, 2005; participant, Conferenceon African Health and Illness, 2005; etc; hob: table tennis, football, karate, boxing,traveling, reading; off: Department ofTheatreArtsandMusic,Faculty ofArts, LagosState University, Lagos; res: 7, Shaba Ojo Street, Igando, Lagos; tel:08023339390; e-m:omnmilababa@yahoo.co.uk. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6825","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6825"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}